The first giveaway this week comes from Button Me Up, who are offering a quality set of nine steampunk buttons. Because what says steam more distinctly than an octopus in a top hat and what screams punk fashion more than sticking random things on your safety-pinned striped vest or tucked into your bowler?

Their description:

“This set includes the following buttons: Mustache and monocle, a gentleman octopus, Sherlock Holmes, I Gear Steampunk, Got Googles?, powered by tea, gear, clockwork heart, and clockface.”

About Beyond Victoriana

The Nutshell ExplanationBeyond Victoriana is the oldest-running blog about multicultural steampunk and retro-futurism--that is, steampunk outside of a Western-dominant, Eurocentric framework. Founded in 2009, Beyond Victoriana focuses on non-Western cultures, underrepresented minorities in Western histories (Asian / Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, First Nation, Hispanic, black / African & other marginalized identities), and the cultural intersection between the West and the non-West.